docs: sphinx: Fix couple of spellings in the file rstFlatTable.py

s/automaticly/automatically/
s/buidler/builder/

..and a sentence construction fix.

Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210301201052.11067-1-unixbhaskar@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Docs: drop Python 2 support

The kernel build system as a whole is dropping support for Python 2, so we
should do the same. The effects are rather small, especially considering
that much of the deleted code was not doing anything under any version of
Python anyway.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Documentation: rstFlatTable.py: fix a broken reference

The old HOWTO was removed a long time ago. The flat table
version is not metioned elsewhere, so just get rid of the
text.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

docs: sphinx-extensions: make rstFlatTable work with docutils 0.13

In docutils 0.13, the return type of get_column_widths method of the
Table directive has changed [1], which breaks our flat-table directive
and leads to a TypeError when trying to build the docs [2].

This patch adds support for the new return type, while keeping support
for older docutils versions too.

[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/patches/120/
[2] https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/bugs/303/

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.8.x-
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

docs: sphinx-extensions: add metadata parallel-safe

The setup() function of a Sphinx-extension can return a dictionary. This
is treated by Sphinx as metadata of the extension [1].

With metadata "parallel_read_safe = True" a extension is marked as
save for "parallel reading of source". This is needed if you want
build in parallel with N processes. E.g.:

make SPHINXOPTS=-j4 htmldocs

will no longer log warnings like:

WARNING: the foobar extension does not declare if it is safe for
parallel reading, assuming it isn't - please ask the extension author
to check and make it explicit.

Add metadata to extensions:

* kernel-doc
* flat-table
* kernel-include

[1] http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/extdev/#extension-metadata

Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarIT.de>
Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

doc-rst: flat-table directive - initial implementation

Implements the reST flat-table directive.

The ``flat-table`` is a double-stage list similar to the ``list-table`` with
some additional features:

* column-span: with the role ``cspan`` a cell can be extended through
additional columns

* row-span: with the role ``rspan`` a cell can be extended through
additional rows

* auto span rightmost cell of a table row over the missing cells on the right
side of that table-row. With Option ``:fill-cells:`` this behavior can
changed from *auto span* to *auto fill*, which automaticly inserts (empty)

list tables

The *list tables* formats are double stage lists. Compared to the
ASCII-art they migth be less comfortable for readers of the
text-files. Their advantage is, that they are easy to create/modify
and that the diff of a modification is much more meaningfull, because
it is limited to the modified content.

The initial implementation was taken from the sphkerneldoc project [1]

[1] https://github.com/return42/sphkerneldoc/commits/master/scripts/site-python/linuxdoc/rstFlatTable.py

Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarIT.de>
[jc: fixed typos and misspellings in the docs]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>